South Korea Oaths Reply To Provokers Of North Korea's Gegabah

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. (Wikimedia Commons/KOCIS/Jeon Han)

JAKARTA - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeols while commemorating the sea battle between two Koreas in 1999 near the second sea border, vowed to aggressively retaliate against North Korea's provocations.

"We will without hesitation answer North Korea's reckless provocation," he wrote on his Facebook page as reported by ANTARA, Thursday, June 15.

"Only our immense power will bring true peace, not fake peace that makes us have to beg our enemies."

Yoon previously cited the government's efforts of former president Moon Jae-in in encouraging reconciliation with North Korea as a begging act for peace.

The 1999 fighting took place near the Northern Border Line (NLL), which is the maritime border of facto in the Yellow Sea, which prompted an entire North Korean warship and nine other ships to be heavily damaged.

The South Korean Navy did not lose a single soldier, on the other hand dozens of North Korean soldiers are said to have died in the sea battle.

"Our Navy personnel who went to the battlefield without hesitation fought North Korean patrol ships and defended NLL," Yoon wrote.

"The spirit of their burning patriotism spreads to their juniors."